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Working Group
May 28, 2013 - May 30, 2013
Collins Conference Room
SFI is currently engaged in a large project that explores the long-term processes or urbanization and political centralization from the perspective of complex systems. Cahokia stands out as one of the best-studied cases that does not fit neatly into current settlement or political typologies. Thus Cahokia may have an important counter-factual role in evaluating the broader relationship between scale and political-economic complexity. To understand the relationship between population agglomeration at Cahokia and concomitant political and economic processes which support social integration and functional differentiation we need to determine the rate and nature of population growth at Cahokia, identify changes in socio-spatial structure of these growing populations, and place these developments in regional and comparative contexts. The purpose of the working group is to make these determinations, identifying elements of consensus and difference between principal scholars.
SFI Host: Peter Peregrine, Scott Ortman, and Eric Rupley
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